Sgt Frank Adamson 831864
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Royal Artillery, 1st Armoured Division
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Son of Mrs Adamson, of 5 Dunelm Road Thornley
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Born 1908; enlisted 16/10/43. Captured in North Africa, Libya 16/3/42 Held: Camps 73 and 53 Italy. Mentioned in one of my father's letters from Camp 53. Stalag 4B in early 1945 German POW number 225761.
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Pte George E Ashford 5383582
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1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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Son of Mr T Ashford, 77 Dunelm Road, Thornley.
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Captured with the British Expeditionary Force in France, June 1940. Called up: 1939. Held at Stalag 20B, Marienburg, in early 1945. German POW number 7257. Sunderland Echo 27/6/40: 'Mr Thomas Ashford, of Dunhelm Road, Thornley, has received official intimation that his son, Pte George E Ashford, of the 1st Bucks Regiment, is reported missing. Pte Ashford was in the Territorials before the war broke out and was working at Slough, Bucks.' Reported POW, Sunderland Echo 5/8/40.
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Chief Petty Officer William Blakemore
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Royal Navy
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Sunderland Echo 5/9/41: 'CPO William Blakemore (35), Son of Mrs Blakemore of the Aged Miners' Cottages, Thornley, reported Prisoner of War.' Sunderland Echo 22/9/41: 'Mrs W Blakemore, Aged Miners' Homes, Thornley has been informed that the previous information she received to the effect that PO Blakemore was a Prisoner of War is not correct. This related to another person called Blakemore. PO Blakemore must therefore still be regarded as missing.' Photo on next page.
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Bandsman D Bolam
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Of 8 Nelson St, Thornley, Sunderland Echo 11/7/42.:’Missing in Hong Kong, now reported Prisoner of War’.
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Pte Reginald Craggs
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Black Watch
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Son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Craggs, Thornlaw South, Thornley
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Of Sixth Street, Wheatley Hill, according to the Sunderland Echo, where he was reported missing 17/7/40. Reported POW in Sunderland Echo 28/8/40. Captured with the British Expeditionary Force in France, June-July 1940.
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Pte William Dawson 4393555
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4th Battalion Green Howards
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Son of William ‘Ginger’ and Meg Dawson, of The Railway Tavern, Thornley. Enlisted 15/3/40; captured Gazala, 1/6/42. Held in Camps 85 and 70, Italy and Stalag’s 4B and 4C, Germany, coal mine workcamp at Brux between 25/10/43 and 7/5/45. German POW No 251765.
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L/Cpl Tom English 4461730
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16th Battalion DLI
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Nelson Street, Thornley
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One of a number of 16th DLI men who were captured by ELAS Communist forces in Greece in December 1945 and held by them for over a month before being released.
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Pte C 'Kit' Haswell
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Possibly 4458158 Pte C Haswell
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9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
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Captured at Dunkirk
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Possibly Stalag 344, Lamsdorf, in early 1945, German POW number 12883.
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Pte J K Hoole 4453350
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Army Air Corps (paratrooper)
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Son of Mr and Mrs Hoole, of 68 Thornlaw South, Thornley.
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